Let me start from the bottom comments. I sincerely doubt that your perspective differs much from mine. If anything, we agree on the points being made, with perhaps my focus just being the difference of how much emphasis I put on the civil point of any discussion. In the larger scope of life, I would hope you think that is still an admirable goal, even after 11 years of FlyerTalk.
Actually I only put out a few quotes and there are many, many more. I think it does compute. For instance, because of the marketplace mentality that many do sense, those who would offer up something for nothing have a legitimate concern that those items will be quickly turned back around for someone's profit. Not the spirit of what these many members want to worry about. As for the penalties. I'm thinking that is a bit much to continue to ask our volunteers that they have to monitor civil behavior on FlyerTalk? If that is their chief role, then we've really got the wrong model going. They have worked very hard toward the goals we'd like to see in the forum and perhaps my interference is aimed at accelerating the word that it is considered cool to be civil. As for your solutions for uncivil behavior. I've got to stand up and say that i do not want any forum to be one where these types of actions are a norm rather than an exception. If we had to mask or ban someone from CC, I'm thinking that might be a total of 1-2 times a year, not the same per week. As for the GC issue. It seems that most cast the blame on that issue and I personally have no thoughts on that. As for buying miles, sure, they could do that but given that there is often a fee to the airlines for such, the "value" equation might turn pretty ugly real quick. And that, of course may be part of what this is all about.
You must know that i totally appreciate your perspective and it would seem we both do have the very same goal when we're here: "desire to make FT an even better and more vibrant community for all." Thanks for sharing that goal with me and thanks for your past and future support of FlyerTalk.
Randy
Originally Posted by
aktchi
I appreciate that Randy has given us this time-out. However, as I read the discussion elsewhere as well as the messages he quotes in his post, I have the uneasy feeling that this
does not compute.
If we misdiagnose a problem, we can spend a lot of energy and yet not solve it. Therefore, having given myself about 1 day to settle on how the situation appears to me and how it could be addressed, I am offering my perspective.
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My perspective may differ from yours but please take these thoughts in the spirit in which they are offered, with the desire to make FT an even better and more vibrant community for all.